Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 05/06/2003
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 109 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
In the film
Happy New Year (1987), actor
Peter Falk donned old-age makeup to play a senior citizen. Eight years later, he did it again, twice, in the TV movie remake of
The Sunshine Boys (1995) and this film, a comedy-drama. Falk stars as Rocky Holzcek, a cantankerous 76-year-old Polish-American baker who insists, despite relatives' protests, upon adopting his young grandson Michael when the boy's parents pass away. Twenty years later, Michael (
D.B. Sweeney) is a medical student who's forced to take in his still-spry grandfather when the old man is evicted from his apartment building. Although the crusty, outspoken Rocky gets along fine with Michael's Chinese college roommates, he is less enthused about his grandson's girlfriend Beth (
Julianne Moore). Eventually, Michael and Beth marry, move away and have children, while Rocky continues working as a baker, passing the age of 100. When a tragedy befalls Michael and his kids, the old man once again comes to his grandson's rescue, but even a force of nature like Rocky can't last forever.
Roommates was loosely based on the real-life experiences of screenwriter
Max Apple and his grandfather.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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